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Of course, the fact that none of the stormtroopers with spoken lines have Jango's voice or accent doesn't matter in the slightest.
Babies are hard? I thought they were soft.
Darth Lars said:
Imperial crewman in the crowd adjusts his eyeglasses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beZPPGdWhBw
First time regular eyeglasses (not protective goggles) are spotted in Star Wars. Error or not?
*ahem*
darthcantthinkofasuitableusername said:
ye feckers, ye feckin bunch of feckin feckers, feckin drunk bashtards, feck off.
Toothless old men shouldn't have access to the Internet.
Ah, Ghost Rider, the movie that cemented my utter dislike for Eva Mendes.
^Perhaps ...
*twilightzonetheme*
That video kind of reminds me of this scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or3okI_mad8
;-P
I'd love to see an X-Men movie which focuses on the original team from the '60s -- Professor X, Cyclops, Beast, Iceman, Angel, and Marvel Girl -- but at this point, I know it's unlikely to happen.
EXT. VOLCANIC MOON - PLATEAU - TWILIGHT
On the surface of a moon several light-years away from the Dania system, a Theta-class shuttle and three TIE fighters sit atop a plateau overlooking a landscape dotted by several smouldering volcanoes. The air thick with ash, the mother planet of the moon can barely be seen as a hazy, dirty purple half-disk in the dark black-and-gray sky.
A ways away from the shuttle and TIEs, five figures can be seen fleeing from a large swarm of hostile natives; they are all crew members of the Deliverer, a search party led by Commander Salem Piker.
As the hostile natives -- heavily-armoured humanoid females with prominent forehead ridges, pointed ears, and dark green skin -- close in on the party, they take aim with their staff-shaped energy weapons and open fire, sending beams of devastating orange-and-yellow energy toward the visitors; the party members return the favour by firing green blaster bolts at them.
CMDR. PIKER: C'mon, now! Hurry it along! Move, move, move!
In a few short minutes, the crewmembers of the Deliverer make it to their ships. Wasting no time, they hurry to climb aboard their starcrafts.
INT. THETA-CLASS SHUTTLE/COCKPIT - TWILIGHT
Clambering into the shuttle, Piker enters the cockpit and quickly sits down beside the pilot.
CMDR. PIKER: Take us out of here!
Obeying instantly, the pilot engages the shuttle's engines and prepares for liftoff.
EXT. PLATEAU - TWILIGHT
The alien warriors arrive just the four starships take off. Aiming their weapons upward, they open fire; while one of the TIEs is quickly overtaken by the devastating beams and reduced to an orange fireball, the remaining craft manage to evade the lances of energy and escape to the ash-filled sky above.
INT. THETA-CLASS SHUTTLE/COCKPIT - TWILIGHT
CMDR. PIKER: (exhales loudly) That was too close.
PILOT: It isn't over yet, Commander. I'm picking up ten alien fighters closing in on us from behind.
CMDR. PIKER: (annoyed) Oh, for the love of Clapton!
EXT. SPACE - VOLCANIC MOON
As the Theta-class shuttle and its escort of twin TIE fighters escape the atmosphere of the moon behind them, ten medium-sized fighters shaped like foreboding birds of prey converge on them, discharging orange-yellow energy beams their way. Two of the beams pass right through the shields of the shuttle and burn through the left wing, severing it from the rest of the craft.
INT. THETA-CLASS SHUTTLE/COCKPIT
CMDR. PIKER: What the hell was that!?
PILOT: Whatever those beams are made of, they passed right through our shields. Our left wing has been sheared completely off.
CMDR. PIKER: How long to hyperlaunch?
PILOT: Just under a minute, sir.
EXT. SPACE
As the seconds pass by, one of the enemy fighters succeeds in blowing one of the TIEs away.
INT. THETA-CLASS SHUTTLE/COCKPIT
PILOT: Coordinates locked ... now!
CMDR. PIKER: Punch it!
The pilot pulls back a lever, and the stars outside the cockpit window suddenly elongate into infinite strings of white light.
EXT. SPACE
Both the shuttle and the remaining TIE fighter make the jump into hyperspace, leaving the enemy ships behind.
INT. THETA-CLASS SHUTTLE/COCKPIT
CMDR. PIKER: (sighs) I hope they can't follow us through hyperspace.
INT. DELIVERER/DOCKING BAY
Sometime later, the Theta-class shuttle and the last remaining TIE fighter return to the Deliverer through the open docking bay. As they touch down, Bail arrives to greet them.
The shuttle's hatch opens and lowers, allowing Piker and the rest of the team members aboard the craft to climb out. As the commander wearily runs a hand through his hair, Bail walks up to him.
BAIL: How did it go, Commander?
CMDR. PIKER: I'm sorry, sir, but the moon was a dead end. When we went to check out that base, all we found were natives -- very beautiful, very deadly, natives. (beat) If there were ever any Mandies there, they left or were killed by the locals a long time ago.
BAIL: (sighs) This was our best lead.
CMDR. PIKER: I'm sorry, sir.
BAIL: Don't be. (beat) We'll just have to keep looking.
Turning his back on Salem Piker, Admiral Bail Organa leaves.
Sabrina Goes to Rome (1998) - 6/10
Sabrina, Down Under (1999) - 6/10
The Great Outdoors (1988) - 7.4/10
The Rescuers (1977) - 6.7/10
^I figured s/he was being sarcastic.
You mean my rewrite? I suppose I'm not against the idea, but I don't think I have the technical know-how needed to get it done properly myself.
Why is it that only films made from the mid-to-late '60s through to the '70s, '80s, and even '90s are ever criticized for having "dated" elements, but movies made in the early '60s, '50s, '40s, '30s, etc. never are? How are men in fedoras and housewives in dresses who say things like "swell" and "keen" any more timeless than guys with long sideburns and women with big hair who say things like "groovy" or "tubular"?
Warbler said:
meaningless? huh?
Since no one can agree on what "god" (the word, not necessarily any concepts that come with it) entails, it's essentially meaningless.
oblivious carbon copists from a
Tyrphanax said:
Tobar said:
I hate that the EU turned the "Academy" mentioned in Star Wars into an Imperial Academy. The dialog doesn't support that idea at all.
Here's a slightly truncated portion of the cut Biggs scene as it appeared in the script. I've highlighted the relevant parts:
LUKE: Look who's talking. Now that you've been around those giant starships you're beginning to sound like my uncle. You've gotten soft in the city...
BIGGS: I've missed you kid.
LUKE: Well, things haven't been the same since you left, Biggs. It's been so... quiet.
Biggs looks around then leans close to Luke.
BIGGS: Luke, I didn't come back just to say good-bye... I shouldn't tell you this, but you're the only one I can trust... and if I don't come back, I want somebody to know.
Luke's eyes are wide with Biggs' seriousness and loyalty.
LUKE: What are you talking about?
BIGGS: I made some friends at the Academy. (he whispers) ...when our frigate goes to one of the central systems, we're going to jump ship and join the Alliance...
Luke, amazed and stunned, is almost speechless.
LUKE: Join the Rebellion?! Are you kidding! How?
BIGGS: Quiet down will ya! You got a mouth bigger than a meteor crater!
LUKE: I'm sorry. I'm quiet. (he whispers) Listen how quiet I am. You can barely hear me...
Biggs shakes his head angrily and then continues.
BIGGS: My friend has a friend on Bestine who might help us make contact.
LUKE: You're crazy! You could wander around forever trying to find them.
BIGGS: I know it's a long shot, but if I don't find them I'll do what I can on my own... It's what we always talked about. Luke, I'm not going to wait for the Empire to draft me into service. The Rebellion is spreading and I want to be on the right side -- the side I believe in.
...................................................................................................................
LUKE: I wish I was going... Are you going to be around long?
BIGGS: No, I'm leaving in the morning...
LUKE: Then I guess I won't see you.
BIGGS: Maybe someday... I'll keep a lookout.
LUKE: Well, I'll be at the Academy next season... after that who knows. I won't be drafted into the Imperial Starfleet that's for sure... Take care of yourself, you'll always be the best friend I've got.
So from this scene we learn that Biggs has been away in the big city (Mos Eisley?) at the Academy. An earlier portion I left out is that he received his commission and is the first mate aboard a ship. He fears being drafted into the Empire so he plans to jump ship and head to the planet Bestine where he hopes to find a Rebel contact. Now, if this was an Imperial Academy why would he be afraid of being drafted into the Empire if he'd already joined it?
So what did the EU take away from all of this? That Biggs left Tatooine to join the Imperial Academy on Prefsbelt IV. And that Bestine is a small town on Tatooine. *face palm*
Yeah, growing up, even without having seen the deleted scenes, I always figured the Academy was a civilian thing that the Empire drafted from.
Had it been an Imperial Academy, I would have thought that they would have referred to it as such.
The paranoid side of me wants to believe that the Academy was a dummy organization set up by the Empire to suck unwitting recruits into the Imperial fleet. ;-)
Ed Gein's tanning salon for
Bingowings said:
Anyone called Michael could have been a better Anakin.
I am now picturing Michael Jackson in TPM saying Jake Lloyd's lines.
"I'm a person and my name is Anakin".
Hmm ... I think Michael actually could have pulled it off better than Jake.
Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:
Suppose that the being that Christians call "God" (presuming He exists) isn't really a god at all, but is actually just a superior being who is raising us for some nefarious reason.
And this is where the very word "god" becomes meaningless, as what does or does not constitute "god" is going to differ depending on who you ask.
capable of sideways time travel
Unless they happen to be Star Trek aliens, in which case ...
have a lengthy lung transplant
DrCrowTStarwars said:
Tobar said:
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Wow. Fox finally got their crap together. This movie was exactly what this franchise needed. I'm actually looking forward to the next one.
Please tell me they finally made the focus of the story someone other then Wolverine,if they did that I would go see it in theaters. I am just burnt out on all things Wolverine. It's the same with Batman in the DC universe. I don't hate either of them but they have been so over used I just don't care about them any more. I don't know if that makes sense to anyone else,but that is just how I feel right now.
Both characters were better when they had some human weaknesses and limitations. Turning them into unbeatable, unkillable demigods has made them both incredibly boring.
Tobar said:
Awesome, I'm way behind in my Star Wars reading. Still need to get all of Rinzler's Making Of books as well as this.
DuracellEnergizer said:
I'm glad this was dropped. Disembodied hands moving of their own volition have no place outside of an Evil Dead film. ;-)
Thanks, this inspired me to do some searching and now I believe Michael Caine would have made a far better Anakin. =P
I definately have to see that movie now.